by Renaud Bédard
CAPTAIN AMERICA THE MOVIES
by Renaud Bédard
First in the beginning of any Captain America related movies, if anyone has any respect, the names of the original creators should be honored and appear always, based on Joe Simon and Jack Kirby
- WORLD WAR II -
The first movie should start during World War Two with more close and personal stories where at one point Captain America possibly doing some reconnaissance undercover mission in France would get injured during a bombardment, and members of the French resistance finding the hero unconscious and taking him to a safer location and caring for his wounds; and during his healing, the real man behind the mask Steve Rogers would get to know his caretakers better and witness for himself the horror and the painful reality of the nazi occupation from executions to torture, poverty, food shortages, and so many orphans of war. Also could be hopefully shown Captain America first in his original costume with his original triangular shield; and maybe even along with a few Invaders cameos, with secret meetings and hints of the original Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, Miss America, the Whizzer, and others, all in civilian clothes with a little golden age superhero costumes showing through at times and a pair of eyes starting to flame on. The movie could end with the hero's disappearance and of his partner Bucky after an explosion above northern Atlantic skies. The very last scene could have a touching narration by Captain America himself, along with an eye candy golden age moment as his friends and the Invaders arriving on the scene fearing the worse would search for signs of life from their leader, something that could be explored farther in the first Avengers movie
- THE MODERN AGE -
From his last heroic moments near the end of World War Two, trying to prevent a missile from reaching its target of countless innocents, to the legendary hero missing in action and presumed dead after the mid-air explosion and falling into icy waters; Steve Rogers would finally be found and rescued many years later by the modern day Avengers. Captain America would for a moment regain consciousness, only to hear voices in the background talking about him, and he would open up his eyes only to see very blurry visions, almost like in a dream, of a Viking north god, also a man in shining metal armor, an tiny insect size woman, and a pair of gigantic eyes looking back at him, before he would fall back unconscious. Then he would wake up again a few days later, but this time in an hospital bed, and to avoid anymore shocks, Steve Rogers would have the truth hidden from him, and his caretakers would try to make him believe he is still in the 1940's with old fashion clothes, old street cars in the neighborhood, with old music and old news bulletins on the radios, all in a small restricted controlled area just outside the city. But Steve would sense something wrong, noticing tiny mistakes like a Japanese made watch and a German made medical tool; and eventually he would escape thinking he was caught by the enemy, still in World War trying to get top-secret information out of him. Once out and running outside of the restricted zone, Steve Rogers would discover that he is back home in a new modern age, as a man out of time
And in this new modern age Captain America would continue his fight for truth justice and liberty, with a dramatic spectacular mid-air rescue of a highjacked airliner filled with passengers. The legendary hero would jump right off an air force fighter jet only to land right on the plane and fight his way inside to regain control, only to give it back to the disbelieved pilot and co-pilots, before jumping right back out. In future Captain America solo film events, if only as a backup, it would be nice to see the hero in action using his spectacular energy shield, and eventually meet the new modern day Falcon Sam Wilson, and a very defiant Captain Walker the USAgent, along with others like Diamondback, Rachel Leighton and Free Spirit, Cathy Webster
- CAPTAIN AMERICA -
A movie that will be respected worldwide, will be one where Captain America himself would eventually refuse to be a puppet of his own government, and where Steve Rogers would make his own mind, have his own opinion, and even have the courage to take on some of his very own people, corrupted government administrators, sinister agenda groups and high ranking trigger happy army officers if necessary; in fact taking on the villains within his very own dear country, drawing the line between patriotism and doing the right thing for all mankind, at the risk of himself being declared an enemy of the states, by corrupted groups. Captain America would have a more global vision of the world, and be a real genuine hero that will fight for everyone's liberty and more importantly everyone's very basic security and lives, including those of innocent Germans back then, as innocent men women and children in modern day wars. And if anything, a Captain America World War 2 movie could do what Hollywood movies never did before, honor and respect all who died in that war, all none Americans as well, many Canadians, British, French, Italians, Belgium, Dutch... and many innocents from all sides who never even had anything to do about the war
- THE RED SKULL -
The movie should show the origin of the Red Skull, which was born Johann Schmidt in a village of southern Germany, the son of an illiterate, drunken poor peasant named Hermann, and his wife Martha who died giving birth. Hermann tried to drown the newborn Johann, blaming him for the death of his mother, and committed suicide the next morning; but the infant was rescued and put in an orphanage, where the Red Skull was born as the fruit of World War One, a young man living in misery poverty and with the injustice of War debts imposed by the victors of Europe. In the beginning the crowds would feel sympathy for him, seeing the injustice he had to live between the two wars, and growing less patience with his hope gradually fading away, and hatred starting to taking over, and eventually pushed in the path of Evil. Trying to find some normal life for himself after years of running away and stealing just to survive in the streets, Johann might have lost his only reason to live as his wife to be died due to poverty; and in a fragile state of mind, Nazis would find and direct him to become the German super spy known as the Red Skull. Years later, we could find him hiding in the US under the alias names of George Maxon the head of a corporation, as it was in the very first issue of Captain America Comics of 1941; in that story he dies, but maybe that could be worked into a ruse, leaving only his mask behind and fading into the crown escaping Captain America. In the beginning the man known as the Red Skull could simply be an ordinary spy wearing a red mask; and by the end of the movie he could be permanently disfigured in an incident while experimenting on himself an incomplete imperfect super-soldier serum he stole
- BUCKY BARNES -
Bucky Barnes should be in the very first movie as he is an essential important part of Captain America's world war two eras as one of his best ally, ever since that time he walked in and discovered Steve putting on the Captain America uniform. At the end of World War two along with Captain America, Bucky in presumed dead in action after saving countless innocents in an explosion over the skies of the English Channel. Decades later would be revealed he was found by a Soviet sub-marine at the end of World War Two, and recognized as Cap's ally, the dying young man having lot his memory might have been put on an experimental treatment after years in cryogenic freeze. Once returned, Bucky Barnes could also find himself in the modern age having to save the day again to other heroes' surprise. Bucky with his war experience, his agility, his fighting skills and talent for camouflage, he could diffuse a major threat with a single gesture at the right time; with everyone else having lost all hope, waiting for the worse to happen, he would be risking his own life at an other critical time in history, and going the extra length to make a real difference in the world to protect innocent lives, what ever the cost to himself, Bucky Barnes might impress a lot of folks including the people from Shield who never even saw him coming
My Cap Eagle "A" Design
PS: Please release in hardcover books, Captain America silver age Marvel Masterworks volume 5, 6, and 7; also in hardcovers issues 425 to 454 from 1994–1996, 1 to 50 from 1998-2002, and 1 to 32 from 2002-2005; also on widescreen DVD the Captain America 1991 film, The Marvel Superheroes 1966 animated series , and the 1944 movie serial
